Arabic Number-gender Agreement and More Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Aug 16, 2018
As stated in the previous post, the agreement between the gender of the noun and the number that qualifies it is confusingly difficult for native speakers and learners of Arabic alike. This is especially true with cardinal numbers الأَعْدَاد الأَصْلِيَّة. With other number types, the agreement is straightforward and always requires the addition of the…
The Arabic TV show: Tareeq ‘The path’ (3) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Aug 15, 2018
To recap, we’re still – in the third part of this post – looking at the Lebanese series: Tareeq (the path). The two main stars in the series are عابد فهد Aabed Fahed – a Syrian actor – and نادين نجيم Nadine Njeim – A Lebanese actress. The series has been very popular in Ramadan…
Arabic Numbers: Cardinal, Ordinal, Fractions, and Percentage Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Aug 14, 2018
Arabic numbers الأَعْدَاد can be cardinal أَصْلِيَّة, ordinal تَرْتِيْبِيَّة, fractions كُسُور (plural of كَسْر), and percentage نِسْبَة مَئَوِيَّة. Ordinal numbers are the most difficult, even for native speakers of Arabic, because the gender-agreement with nouns they qualify is reverse. Cardinal numbers are straightforward as far as gender-agreement is concerned. This post presents lists of the…
Common Connecting Phrases in Arabic with Examples Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Aug 9, 2018
In Arabic, it is common to used prepositions حُرُوفُ الجَر and some particles الأَدَوَات when they are combine with other words as connecting phrase or linking words. In this post, you will learn some of these phrases. They are common in both spoken and written Arabic. العِبَارَة The Phrase English Meaning مِثَال Example (1) إِلَّا…
The Arabic TV show: Tareeq ‘The path’ (2) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Aug 8, 2018
Last week, we started learning about the Arabic series Tareeq or taree? (the path) – one of the most popular series in Ramadan 2018. As I mentioned in last week’s post, the The two main stars in the series are عابد فهد Aabed Fahed – a Syrian actor – and نادين نجيم Nadine Njeim –…
The Arabic TV show: Tareeq ‘The path’ (1) Posted by Hanan Ben Nafa on Aug 1, 2018
Watching Arabic dramas is a very important part of the daily routine for the majority of Arabs غالبية العرب during Ramadan. Every year, TV channels القنوات الفضائية compete تتنافس to get exclusive rights to stream لعرض showsبرامج and seriesمسلسلات where actors/actresses stars appear. Now that Ramadan is over, I decide to dedicate this post on…
Active and Passive in Arabic: Practice and Examples Posted by Ibnulyemen اِبْنُ اليَمَن on Jul 31, 2018
In the previous post, you learned about the passive voice المَبْنِي لِلْمَجْهُول in Arabic, and how an active مَعْلُوم sentence is changed into passive مَجْهُول. Besides leaving some words out from the active sentence, verbal internal (i.e. non-final) diacritical marks or short vowels must change. This is essentially the most obvious change in verb forms…